Mother Quotes

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

Gotta love speaking to the mother. What a unique and adorable woman.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.

The Mother of Sorrows is my confidante, my teacher, my counselor, and my powerful advocate.

Biology makes us Mothers & Fathers, whats in the heart makes us Mom's and Dad's

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

Dont hurt me,'Caine whispered. He didnt have the will to look up at her. Gaia laughed. "Have you seen Mother? I seem to have lost her.

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

Until you lose your mother you don't know what it is.

I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.

I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.

Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.

Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.

In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

There's no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.

She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.

My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you, and I thank you.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.